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Educating future corporate managers for a sustainable world: recommendations for a paradigm shift in business education
On the Horizon ( IF 1.7 ) Pub Date : 2018-09-10 , DOI: 10.1108/oth-01-2018-0007
Mine Üçok Hughes , Shikha Upadhyaya , Rika Houston

Purpose This paper aims to argue for a need for a paradigm shift in business education that would move the focus of curriculum away from profit maximization at all costs to incorporation of principles of sustainability. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper that argues for a major shift in business education, one that not only incorporates diversity and interdisciplinarity and integrative learning at its core, but also does not superficially conflate sustainability with corporate social responsibility and/or business ethics. Findings This paper discusses the broader concepts of diversity, integrative learning and interdisciplinarity related to curriculum design and several approaches for integrating a broadened definition of sustainability through business school curricula and pedagogy. Research limitations/implications The paper only discusses a few of the many factors that are needed for the argued need for change in business school curriculum. Social implications It is important to educate future managers with consciousness of sustainability not only for the sake of the communities of today and future generations but also for corporations to stay sustainable in the future when some of the natural resources they use today will be much scarcer. Originality/value A typical business school in the twenty-first century is not educating future managers and entrepreneurs for the realities of a business life today, let alone getting them ready for the world of tomorrow in which obtaining resources and addressing supply chain and waste management issues will be remarkably different. Therefore, it has become imperative for business schools to start a paradigm shift that moves the focus of business school education away from the historical one of profit-maximization toward one that has sustainability at its core.

中文翻译:

教育未来的公司管理者,以实现可持续发展的世界:商业教育范式转变的建议

目的本文旨在提出商业教育范式转变的必要性,以使课程重点从不惜一切代价实现利润最大化转移到纳入可持续性原则。设计/方法论/方法这是一篇概念文件,主张商业教育发生重大变化,它不仅将多样性和跨学科性以及综合学习作为核心内容,而且也未将可持续性与企业社会责任和/或业务混为一谈伦理。调查结果本文讨论了与课程设计相关的更广泛的多样性,整合学习和跨学科概念,以及通过商学院课程和教学法整合广泛的可持续发展定义的几种方法。研究的局限性/意义本文仅讨论了商学院课程改革的争论所需要的许多因素中的一些。社会意义重要的是,教育未来的经理人必须具有可持续性意识,这不仅是为了当今和子孙后代的社区,也是为了使公司在未来使用可持续性,因为他们今天使用的某些自然资源将更加匮乏。原创性/价值二十世纪一所典型的商学院并没有教育未来的经理和企业家了解当今的商业生活,更不用说让他们为明天的世界做准备了,在未来的世界中获取资源并解决供应链和废物管理问题问题将截然不同。所以,
更新日期:2018-09-10
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